Impeachment? I'm So Over That!

Once upon a time it was kind of exciting to think about impeachment. It was in a golden age, maybe four months ago or so, when it seemed like plummeting public support due to the un-disguisable and indisputable failure of Bush's project in Iraq, the depraved indifference of government planning for and response to Katrina, and the monumental thievery of the Abramoff gang would actually have some negative effect on the Bush crime family's ability to rule.

Impeachment was worth thinking about when it seemed worthwhile to point out the extent of criminal liability in the daily activity of the US Government. But it was never a real possibility. Impeachment isn't about criminal actions and never has been. It's about politics. The Republican victors of the Civil War were not about to let Democrat Confederate lover Andrew Johnson define the nature of post war America. The Democratic House and Senate wasn't going to let the Republican scum bag Nixon steal the election that should have been theirs by engineering the nomination of George (I'm not really Liberace's brother) McGovern and then have the fucking nerve to veto everything they tried to pass in his face. The Republican rulers of both the House and Senate for the first time since Reconstruction, weren't going to let that Democrat Trailer Trash mamma's boy actually serve 8 years and pretend that he was running the country.

That's what impeachment is about. Not illegally firing a war secretary, wire tapping the other party or lying about getting a blow job. And it's certainly not about war crimes, graft, or subversion of the constitution.

The Democrats just don't have the votes. There are no impeachments when the President's opponents don't control the Congress.

But the fact remains: The world needs them out of power.

The Bush Gang is the most destructive executive agency in world history since Hitler. I can't even imagine how any serious person can actually look at the evidence and conclude anything else.

The US political system is entirely incapable of rectifying the situation. Ipso facto: Methods outside the US political system are absolutely necessary to confront the current situation. Impeachment might be a useful rallying cry to mobilize a mass movement of resistance and civil disobedience, but Congress, whether by hearings or impeachment, will never provide a solution to the horror show that America has become.